[CS4][JS] Accessing skewed text items

Question

The following code snippet successfully finds all the skewed text in a
document and then removes the skew:
//Clear the find/change preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Set the find options.
app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
//Search the document for all the skewed text
app.findTextPreferences.skew = 1;
// now remove all skews
app.changeTextPreferences.skew = 0;
However, I want to access each fragment of skewed text rather than
globally change them.
How do I access the collection of skewed text items as the
findTextPreferences does not seem to possess the required properties.
TIA
Doug Neale

Answer 1

Hi Peter,
I tried this on a single page document with some text set in italics:
//Clear the find/change preferences.
app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.changeTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
//Set the find options.
app.findChangeTextOptions.caseSensitive = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeFootnotes = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeHiddenLayers = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedLayersForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeLockedStoriesForFind = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.includeMasterPages = false;
app.findChangeTextOptions.wholeWord = false;
//Search the document for all the skewed text
app.findTextPreferences.skew = 1;
var myFound = app.activeDocument.findText();
if (myFound.length==0) {
alert("No skewed text was found");
else {
// ok we have some skewed text, now loop through each one
for (i =0; i < myFound.length; i++) {
var myTextObject = myFound[i];
var myText = myTextObject.Content;
and it always finishes up with the alert :-(
and debug confirmed that myFound.length was zero.
Should I be doing something else to find italic text?
Regards,
Doug Neale